The Circle advocates the wondrous prospects for gathering knowledge, eliminating anonymity, reducing crime and increasing transparency and accountability-all made possible by their advances. They introduce tools like SeeChange, lollipop-sized, wireless, real-time video cameras that can be placed anywhere on the globe, and ChildTrack, microchips that can be embedded in the bones of children. The Circle’s tools are the best and most dominant, and the company’s reign over data tracking and digital innovation has just begun. As described in the novel, the Circle “put all of it, all of every user’s needs and tools, into one pot and invented TruYou-one account, one identity, one password, one payment system, per person…One button for the rest of your life online.” Knopf, McSweeney’s Books | 2013ĭave Eggers’ new novel, “The Circle,” follows 20-something Mae Holland through her first days as a new hire to her increasingly public role at “the most influential company in the world.” By the time Mae steps foot on the company’s 400-acre campus-complete with pristine glass and steel offices, picnic areas, tennis and bocce courts, dorms, parties, a day center and health clinic-the Circle is already well known and admired for having transformed the web by combining social media profiles, payment systems, passwords, email accounts, user names and preferences into one unified system.
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